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TD Ballpark, originally Dunedin Stadium at Grant Field, is a baseball field located in Dunedin, Florida.The stadium was built in 1990 and holds 8,500 people. It is the spring training home of the Toronto Blue Jays, as well as home to the Dunedin Blue Jays of the Florida State League and the Dunedin High School Falcons baseball team.
The original incarnation of the Dunedin Blue Jays was founded in 1978. They were established as the Class A affiliate of the new Toronto Blue Jays franchise. They played for two seasons in the Florida State League and were one of four Class A teams in Toronto's farm system. After the 1979 season the team was disbanded as Toronto expanded its ...
The Blue Jays renamed the training facility the Bobby Mattick Training Center at Englebert Complex in 2003 after Bobby Mattick, [4] who managed the Blue Jays from 1980 to 1981, and was employed by the team from 1976 until his death in 2004. The City of Dunedin objected to the new name, arguing that Mattick had no ties to the city. [5]
Dunedin's TD Ballpark will serve as the home of the Toronto Blue Jays, at least for the start of the 2021 MLB season.
The Blue Jays came back and won 3–1 in front of 1,988 fans. [8] A new home clubhouse was constructed beneath the third base grandstand prior to the 1985 season. [9] In 1990, at a cost of approximately $2.4 million, the City of Dunedin razed Grant Field's grandstand and built a new stadium called Dunedin Stadium at the same location. The new ...
The first phase of the $400 million renovation focused on redoing the stadium’s upper bowl and creating new fan zones. As part of that, the left-center field wall was brought in by 7 feet to 368 ...
The Blue Jays' former radio play-by-play announcer, Tom Cheek, called every Toronto Blue Jays game from the team's inaugural contest on April 7, 1977, until June 3, 2004, when he took two games off following the death of his father—a streak of 4,306 consecutive regular-season games and 41 postseason games. Cheek later died on October 9, 2005 ...
(became Raymond James Stadium) Alex Box Stadium (a.k.a. LSU Varsity Baseball Field) 1938 2008 Baton Rouge, Louisiana: 7,760 New York Giants (1938–1939) Demolished (became part of new Alex Box Stadium) Bader Park: 1944 1998 Atlantic City, New Jersey: 4,000 New York Yankees (1944–45) Boston Red Sox (1945) Demolished (became The Sandcastle ...